"What are you pretending for? Didn't you bite it?"
Song Xiwei was genuinely angry.
That kind of joke isn't funny at all.
She can't continue this ambiguous relationship with Aoqian.
“Even if I’m not your older brother, I’m even less likely to be your fiancé again. Either we stay the same as two years ago and I’ll simply be your subordinate, or we can just be strangers.”
This time, Song Xiwei gave Aoqian absolutely no room for bargaining.
“You’re a man, and I’m a man too. There are some things that can’t be crossed. Do you understand what I mean?” Song Xiwei didn’t want Aoqian to treat her with such a joking attitude.
She can no longer be led by the nose.
Only by clearly stating our position to Aoqian and making everything clear can we prevent certain mistakes from happening again.
Aoqian's heart sank, as Song Xiwei's words made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
A dense, persistent pain throbbed in my heart.
He crossed the line, and through repeated provocations, he finally pushed her to the point where she could no longer tolerate it.
Thankfully it was just a test; thankfully he didn't reveal his true feelings; thankfully, they can still return to the subordinate relationship they had two years ago, otherwise...
There really is no way out.
I felt both relieved and saddened, and even breathing was difficult.
He thought he had been intimate with her, that he had tricked her into having some close interactions, and he was smugly convinced that he could gradually win her over with his little tricks and make her fall in love with him without her even realizing it.
Now that she has brought it up, it is enough to show that everything was just his own wishful thinking.
She never had any improper thoughts about him; the simple statement that they couldn't cross the line said it all.
If he continues to play dumb, he'll only push her further away.
She was not someone he could manipulate or control at will.
Every time he tried to hold on tight, he felt that the tighter he held on, the more completely she would disappear.
Two years later, he finally thought there would be progress, that the outcome would be different from what he had hoped for, and that he was special because he had cultivated his habits over the past two years and would eventually be able to win her heart.
But he still lost.
He was defeated by his own arrogance.
It turns out that liking someone has nothing to do with time. If you can't like her at first sight, no matter how hard you try or how much effort you put in over the years, it will be in vain.
My heart is broken, it hurts so much...
But it was the only time he didn't want to show his vulnerability in front of her.
Every time he shed tears in the past, there was an element of him deliberately trying to soften her heart.
He used tricks and cleverness, all to make her feel sorry for him and comfort him.
However, he always managed to get the comfort and sympathy he wanted.
Having been so carefully and gently cared for and coaxed by her, he became addicted, subverting her affections time and time again, and accurately manipulating her tenderness towards him time and time again.
Even now, these things seem so insignificant compared to the vastness of the world.
It turns out that there's such a big difference between love, heartache, and comfort.
She didn't love him, and that was that. She never let him misunderstand, but he trapped himself in his own web, indulging in it and believing that he had gained even a sliver of her love.
How foolish! How self-deceiving!
"I'm sorry, I went too far with my joke." When he said those words so casually, he felt as if his heart was being torn apart inch by inch. It hurt so much, but it was all his own doing.
Hearing him seriously admit that he was joking, Song Xiwei felt a strong sense of loss.
See? It was just a joke, but she almost took it seriously...
She tried hard to suppress the strange sense of despondency in her heart.
He forced a smile and said to Aoqian, "I knew you were joking, so I never took it seriously. But this is the last time. Don't do it again. I'm no longer your brother or your fiancé. I'm just a subordinate, so you have no right to make such excessive jokes about me. I hope you can restrain yourself and stop using these kinds of jokes to provoke me. Otherwise, if I get really angry, I won't be able to appease you."
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